Big Leather Couch

The times they are a changin'

I was sitting here at lunch yesterday (or today as I type this - yesterday as you read it), and going through my sidebar, looking at the blogs I have tended to ignore lately as my time is so limited and realized how many of them are static...

It made me think back to a short two years ago when every single one of them had content updated daily.

Now, these people are on Facebook and Twitter and all their content goes there...the instant (or almost instant) gratification of those two mediums.

No more thought out posts about their lives or their world, which allowed us all to become closer to each other.

We shared good times and bad...shared world events and local items of interest.

The times they are a changin'

Sure those things are still shared, but in short blasts 140 - 200 characters... sometimes it feels so superficial...

Remember when blogging was a HUGE deal..."WOW...I have friends all over the world, look at my map, see where they come from to read what I have to say"

There were cool events like the Bestest Blog Carnival, Creative Photo Contests, daily memes like Wordless Wednesday and others...many blogs all with the same themes on the same days.

We still have Blogblast For Peace, because Mimi is a strong woman and has a cause she loves - as do many of us.

And, of course, then it also hit me. Look at this place. Two posts a week, when for the first 4 plus years it was 5 a week..one every weekday - without fail. Then Music On the Couch came along and that began to take my time.

The times they are a changin'

Now, I am on Facebook and do use Twitter, but not all day every day. If you can only be on Twitter every hour or two during the day, it loses meaning as you can not track all the 140 word blasts being sent throughout the world.

I saw that Mick stated on his blog that "The significance of this blog is rapidly waning."

I feel the same about The Big Leather Couch...but in other ways I can not let go. This place has been such a part of my life for 5 years and 8 months.

Can I just put it to rest? I don't think I can...but maybe at some point it will happen.

The times they are a changin'

Is part of it that I feel I might lose touch with some people? Hell, some came to my wedding; Mick, Phfrankie...and it was the first time we had ever met in person. Some are long time friends who I would do anything for; Songbird, Travis, Julie...and I have never met them AT ALL!

Is that my fear?

Some people, well I have just lost touch with them because they stopped blogging or coming here on the few days I do post...do I miss them? Honestly, not all, but some I do miss.

LOL. So I just stopped writing and clicked on Maggie Moo's old site. She started a new blog a time ago and I can not remember the url and it was one I never put on my sidebar. And what do I find, but a post from 3 weeks ago stating she is now engaged. WONDERFUL news for a special person. (HA I just figured out the new url and went over and read some posts).

The times they are a changin'

So there you have it...I miss the old blogging days, but they are never coming back...I miss some of the old gang...I am not sure if The Big Leather Couch means anything any longer, but I can not let it go...

So, for now...you are stuck with me

And that leads me to my set for today...